Box for garments



R. F. CUTHBERT. BOX FOR GA'RMENTS; APPLICATION FILED IAN-26' 1921. l

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To all whom it nm y concern:

Be it known that l, ltonnnr l ilri'riinnn'r, a citizen of the llnited tiiati-is, and resident of the city of New York, county of .l iinns and. State of New York, have inventcd certain new and useful Improvements in lloires for Garments, of which the following); is a specification.

llliy invention TQlfltGF-l to a box or receptacle for containing; articles o l, wearing apparel and more specially womeus dresses, coats, burial shrouds or like articles.

An object of this invention is to provide a boa: of this character for holding such articles, permitting a box of smallcapacity to be used for containing a dress in sucha manner to prevent undue creasing or folding of the garment and to allow the garment to be readily removed from the box for the purpose of display and returned to its former position in the box readily.

A. further object of this invention is to provide a box for containing a dress or the like in which the dress will. be securely held and will not be readily wrinkled or folded by handling of the boxes and yet will permit a ready removal of the garment from the box when desired.

These and other improvements are secured. by my invention, a more particular description. of which will appear hereinafter.

lleferencetis to he had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof in which v Figure l is a plan view of a hot. and its contents, the box being made in accordance with my invention and provided. with my improve-d means for holding a garment in place.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2--2bf Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Throughout the various views of the drawings, similar reference characters des- In the preferred embodiment of my inven tion as disclosed in the accompanying drawing, T have showna box having a bottom 1, sides 2 and ends 3 and 4, the box may be ofany desired shape or form to accommodate the desired contents and the box herein shown is of a substantially shallow rectanspecification of Letters Patent. lPatented May $3, ti /22,

Application filed January 26, 1921.

Serial No. 4139307.

gular form. A. cover of any kind may be provided.

lit 5 is shown a garment which may be a dress, coat or the like. The garment is, when in normal position, of greater length than the box and it is preferably folded transversely in order that it can be accommodated within the box, The fold in the garment indicated at 6 and is situated. adjacent one end of the box.

At 7' is a garment hanger of the usual form provided with the usual suspension book 8. Secured to the bottom of the box near the end 3 thereof is a fastening pin or tack 9. [it 10 is cord or tape which is attached to the hanger 7 or which may be socured to the hook 8 thereon. The cord or tape 10 is adapted to detachably engage the pin 9 and form one of the means for securing the dress in place in the box. At the op posite end of the box 4 are securedco-operating; tapes 11 and, 12 which may be secured to the end of the box 4- as by the pins 13. The two tapes 11 and 12 are adapted to be secured together by detachable fastening means, which may bc snap-fasteners 14 or like fastening means, to form a continuous fastening tape which lies within the fold 6 of the garment.

At 15 and 1.6 is a pair of fastening tapes which are secured intermediate of the end tapes 11, i2 and the fastening tape 10. These central tapes .5 and 16 are adapted to be detachably secured together by means of a snap fastener 17 which thus unites the two tapes 1:) and 16 together and causes the same to form a single continuous strip or band which overlies the garment at a substantially central position.

To remove the garment from the box, the string; or tape 10 is removed from the fastening pin 9, the tapes 1 5 and 16 are sepa rated as are the tapes 11 and 12 and. the garment can thus be readily removed. from the box for the purpose of display and it can be suspended upon a book by means of its lrianger 7.

lit will be seen that the garment may be readily replaced. in its position in the box as easily as it can be removed and while held within the box it is securely held in position, i

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pair of tapes secured to one end of the box, means for releasabiy uniting said tapes to form a continuous 'fastenin tape lyingwithin a told in the garment, and a pair of tapes in the box intermediate ot the hanger and 15 the first-mentioned tapes and means to! reieasabiy uniting the Met-mentioned tapes.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York this 24th day of January, 1921.

ROBERT F. CUTHBERT. 

